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Yeah sure. But the only reason the HTML document on the PDA would be able
to be "hacked" into the digital projection system would be because they both
systems had been implemented to conform to the minimal XHTML DTDs :-)
lisa
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> Meanwhile, the HTML fan takes out his wireless PDA and types in:
>>
>> <h1><blink><font color=red>FIRE!</font></blink></h1>
>>
>> which he quickly hacks the digital projection system to display, saving
>> the lives of everyone in the theater.
> From: "akmal @ city" <akmal@soi.city.ac.uk>
> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 22:00:21 +0100 (BST)
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] FWD: Markup-language joke
>
> Hi All,
>
> Just saw this on comp.text.xml, posted by Jorn Barger:
>
> <quote>
>
> An SGML fan, an XML fan, and an HTML fan are watching a movie when they
> notice smoke coming out of a trashcan.
>
> The SGML fan says "We must convince the theater management to hire an
> expert to write a DTD for emergency-announcements, and sell them an
> expensive application for archiving announcements, and get them to hire a
> team to convert all their old announcements to SGML!"
>
> The XML fan says, "There's no time for that! We must train all the
> audience members to recognise XML, and then start a committee to
> investigate the possibility of starting negotiations to form a working
> group to write a paper on the future evolution of emergency-announcement
> semantics!"
>
> Meanwhile, the HTML fan takes out his wireless PDA and types in:
>
> <h1><blink><font color=red>FIRE!</font></blink></h1>
>
> which he quickly hacks the digital projection system to display, saving
> the lives of everyone in the theater.
>
> the pragmatic web: http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/pragmatics.html
>
> </quote>
>
> --
> akmal chaudhri
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